It happens to few of us or i would rather say to all of us.What one person do to live a better life? Plan out activities, jolt down activities, make commitments and make a plan to execute jolted out activities. Let's talk more about making commitments.
In everyday life, all of us make commitments for one thing or the other. There would hardly be a person who doesn't make any commitments. We make commitments to do a great job, never commit any mistake while working in a project, continue education, exercise more, build a healthy diet, save money and many more. You name it and you start making commitments for the same. But due to some other reason, people fail to keep commitments that they have committed. For example, if person A has committed that he will go to gym regularly and will follow a healthy diet daily, first few days, he/she follows and keep the commitment but due to any reason like working late in office or had to visit hospital, need to go on office tour. There would be some unavoidable reasons which make you unable to keep your commitments. To keep commitments, the only thing that is required is "willpower". If a person has strong willpower, some how , that person will try to keep his/her commitments. Everything in this world requires willpower. If you want to achieve some big target, you need strong willpower to face realistic problems that will come on the way.
One should have desire to achieve their goal and readiness and strong willpower to face and overcome the pain. Will power has its own equation in which desire, reward and pain plays important role.
Willpower has nothing do with amount of money. To build strong willpower, one need to carry out meditation atleast for an hour, carry out Yoga. Along with some meditation and yoga, some kind of motivation to achieve one's goal is also highly required. Without motivation, willingness, one might feel difficulty or face problems.
We have some many commitments , we can't even keep track of them. On what basis, you are going to keep your commitments? May be on priority basis or may be on difficulty level basis. Let's consider on priority basis. A person doing a job might have his commitments related to job on highest priority. His commitments may be like these he'll give full effort each day, positive and good attitude towards his job and many like these.
If your commitments are related to money then few commitments can be like these, you will do what it takes to manage money well, keep track and record on spendings, savings, paying of electricity bills.
Bottom line is if you need to achieve your goals , you need a strong will power because achieving any goal is and will never be easy. And heavy motivation is also required. One should list or jolt down "Spiritual Growth" along with other priorities.